Boilermaker (mixing booze and beer) ban plan stirs debate in Neb.

[The Straight Story]

Boilermaker ban plan stirs debate in Neb.


Nebraska's liquor cops want to wipe a 70-year-old ban against mixing booze and beer off the books, saying the original intent of the law that makes drinks like boilermakers illegal disappeared long ago.

But anti-drinking activists suspect another motive: Making it crystal clear that so-called "alcopops" like Mike's Hard Lemonade and Smirnoff Ice are allowed in the state and that they can be taxed as beer.

"If they're looking through the statutes for archaic laws, it's odd this is the only one that came up," said Diane Riibe, director of Omaha-based Project Extra Mile. "The commission is going to want to clean up state statutes that they think hinder their case."

Project Extra Mile, which fights underage drinking, is one of several plaintiffs in a pending lawsuit that challenges the state Liquor Control Commission's decision to allow flavored alcoholic beverages, or so-called "alcopops" to be classified as beer instead of hard liquor. Flavored alcoholic beverages start out as brewed malt beverages but are flavored with distilled spirits.

http://www.columbustelegram.com/articles/2010/01/10/ap-state-ne/ne_booze_dispute.txt

[XemaSab]

1. No car bombs?

What kind of backwards society would outlaw car bombs? :o

[backscatter712]

13. Damned straight!

What authoritarian nitwit would outlaw carbombs?

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I went to college in NE for a year and a half

and I could have sworn the little bar we hung out at served boilermakers.

Well, I THOUGHT that was where I first had them. But then again, we did do some pretty wild partying there. LOL

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. When i lived there you couldn't buy a boilermaker -

but you could buy a shot and a beer, which of course resulted in dropping the shot glass into the beer and Voila!

[htuttle]

4. I've always preferred them separately (at the same time) instead of mixed

Then again, I don't usually drink cheap booze that I don't want to taste.

[Quantess]

5. boilermaker=hangover maker

Beer then liquor, never been sicker. Same effect if you drink beer at the same time as liquor.

But, if people want to feel sick in the morning, it's their choice.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. Mythbusters pretty much shot that one in the ass.

Very funny episode.

[Quantess]

7. Really? Because that saying has held true for me.

Mixing alchol is troublesome in general, but if I start out drinking beer, then I stick with beer, or else feel horrible later. I've learned the hard way.

I don't believe mythbusters on that one.

[1]

8. alcohol is alcohol. it's the concentration that is the problem...

hic!

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Episode 128

http://mythbustersresults.com/dirty-vs-clean-car

[Quantess]

10. Earth shatteringly solid science!

The mythbusters' personal experiences really blew my personal experience out of the water.

[HopeHoops]

11. In PA the bartender is NOT allowed to mix them - but may serve both for the patron to mix.

It is a simple matter of dropping a shot glass into a mug. It is legal to serve a shot and a mug as long as the bartender sets both on the bar individually. If the patron wishes to drop the shot glass into the mug, that is fine and totally legal. Go figure.

[MadBadger]

12. Nothing "hard" about a Mikes Hard Lemonade.